Quine and His Place in History

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Quine and His Place in History

   1. Introduction: Quine and His Place in History

      • Frederique Janssen-Lauret, Gary Kemp

      Pages 1-7

3. Previously Unpublished Papers by W.V. Quine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Introduction to ‘Levels of Abstraction’

      • Douglas B. Quine

      Pages 11-11

   3. Levels of Abstraction (1972)

      • W. V. Quine

      Pages 12-20

   4. Introduction to ‘Preestablished Harmony’ and ‘Response to Gary Ebbs’

      • Gary Ebbs

      Pages 21-28

   5. Preestablished Harmony (1995)

      • W. V. Quine

      Pages 29-32

   6. Response to Gary Ebbs (1995)

      • W. V. Quine

      Pages 33-36

4. Quine’s Contact with the Unity of Science Movement: A Glimpse of His Friendship with Ed Haskell

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Observations on the Contribution of W.V. Quine to Unified Science Theory

      • Ann Lodge, Rolfe A. Leary, Douglas B. Quine

      Pages 39-56

5. Quine’s Connection with Pragmatism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. The Web and the Tree: Quine and James on the Growth of Knowledge

      • Yemima Ben-Menahem

      Pages 59-75

   3. On Quine’s Debt to Pragmatism: C.I. Lewis and the Pragmatic A Priori

      • Robert Sinclair

      Pages 76-99

6. Understanding Quine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Quine’s Philosophies of Language

      • Peter Hylton

      Pages 103-122

   3. Reading Quine’s Claim That No Statement Is Immune to Revision

      • Gary Ebbs

      Pages 123-145

   4. Meta-Ontology, Naturalism, and the Quine-Barcan Marcus Debate

      • Frederique Janssen-Lauret

      Pages 146-167

   5. Underdetermination, Realism, and Transcendental Metaphysics in Quine

      • Gary Kemp

      Pages 168-188

   6. Quine, Wittgenstein and ‘The Abyss of the Transcendental’

      • Andrew Lugg

      Pages 189-209

7. Back Matter

   Pages 210-224

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Containing three previously unpublished papers by W.V. Quine as well as historical, exegetical, and critical papers by several leading Quine scholars including Hylton, Ebbs, and Ben-Menahem, this volume aims to remedy the comparative lack of historical investigation of Quine and his philosophical context.

• knowledge
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• metaphysics
• naturalism
• ontology
• philosophy
• pragmatism
• underdetermination
• understanding

• University of Campinas, Brazil

  Frederique Janssen-Lauret

• University of Glasgow, UK

  Gary Kemp

Gary Ebbs, Indiana University, US.  Yemima Ben-Menahem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Ann Lodge, Old Dominion University, US.  Rolfe A. Leary, USDA Forest Service, US.  Douglas B. Quine Robert Sinclair, Soka University, Tokyo.  Peter Hylton, University of Illinois, US.  Andrew Lugg, University of Ottawa, Canada.

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